"Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters." — Arthur Conan Doyle

"Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters."

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle has 383 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…

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